Maybe we are, because otherwise they wouldn’t treat us so. I’m talking about politicians, advertisers, and all the misinformation that we are fed daily. On Sunday, on the Politics Show on BBC 1, Harriet Harman was put on the rack for two reasons. The first was that at either Central Office, or the local constituency… Continue reading 21.05.08, Do The Think We Are All Stupid
Category: General
18.05.08, Have good manners disappeared?
I think some of the remarks which pass across the floor of the House of Commons, and are then transmitted on television, have all the ingredients of ignorance, bad manners, lack of respect, and above all are a bad example to the youth of the nation. If you go back through the ages and look… Continue reading 18.05.08, Have good manners disappeared?
17.05.08, Changes to the Class System
In doing a revamp to the blog, and in recent years hearing officers of the rank of colonel talking with regional accidents, made me evaluate the vast changes in our class system in the services, since 1914. These changes have mainly been brought about by the First World War, World War II, technology and growing… Continue reading 17.05.08, Changes to the Class System
14.05.08, Financial Anomalies
The Backlash of the Credit Crunch must be presenting Alistair Darling with a confusing headache. The repossession of an increasing number of houses might be doing solicitors, surveyors, and the auctioneers an increase in their incomes, and consequently the tax they pay, but the lack of building, and the lack of sales, are having a… Continue reading 14.05.08, Financial Anomalies
12.05.08, Central and Local Government
Briefly, I have worked in consultancies, contracting, quangos, local government and central government, as a technician in the Navy, or as a civil engineer in the rest. Let us first examine Local Government as I knew it, At the top is a Mayor and the Councillors. These are men and women who have worked their… Continue reading 12.05.08, Central and Local Government
11.05.08, Insecutity, Instability and Greed
I believe, unsurprisingly, that many of the old ways were best. Strangely these thoughts came about because I had purchased freezer bags which I discovered to be half the weight of the previous ones, and slightly dearer. Everything today is subject to unheralded change which is frustrating, and in some cases frightening. My early life… Continue reading 11.05.08, Insecutity, Instability and Greed
10.05.08, Food Waste
Joan Ruddock, Minister of the environment, like me, is shouting down a well and the only voice that replies is her own echo. She talks as if she had just discovered the wheel, when the rest of us have been aware and talking about the waste of our money by the food that we buy,… Continue reading 10.05.08, Food Waste
07.05.08, Is Assessment A Blunt Tool?
I looked at the news today and was unsurprised to find that the PM was once again tinkering with the legislation. Ever since Tony Blair was in office every aspect of our lives has been brought under scrutiny time and time again, and many of the changes made have not, in the long run, been… Continue reading 07.05.08, Is Assessment A Blunt Tool?
05.05.08, Another Political Assessment?
Not really, more a reassessment in the light of the last few days. I believe that national and international government requires considerable political experience covering most circumstances. This was a feature of the governments of the distant past, and should be borne in mind at a time when political change seems to be on the… Continue reading 05.05.08, Another Political Assessment?
02.05.08, Iniquity Upon Iniquity
In this country we have developed a new culture, where the silent majority foots the bill for the iniquities of a miniscule minority. It isn’t just one case, it is dozens of cases. Yesterday we were warned by the newsreader that if we did not show the MOT disc on our car windscreen, we would… Continue reading 02.05.08, Iniquity Upon Iniquity